484 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



A biographical notice of Charles Richard Van Hise by J. E. 



Wolff was presented. 



The following Communications were presented: — 



Professor Elihii Thomson. "Progress in Knowledge of Nature's 



Electricity." 



Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, "The 'Union Academique.'" 



On motion of C. H. Moore and after discussion it was 



Voted, That a Committee be appointed to consider and report 



on the proposed American Council of Learned Societies devoted 



to Humanistic Studies. 



The President appointed as this Committee: C. H. Haskins 



(chairman), Arthur Fairbanks, Kirsopp Lake, C. B. Gulick, C. R. 



Lanman and W. R. Thayer. 



The Meeting was then dissolved. 



One thousand and eighty-fourth Meeting. 



November 12, 1919. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House at 8.15 p. m. 



The President in the Chair, 



Forty-four Fellows and five guests were present. 



The Transactions of the last ^Meeting were read and approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented letters from C, H, 

 Brent, W. S. Franklin, W. H. Holmes, accepting Fellowship; 

 from E. B. Spear, declining Fellowship; from G. M. Allen resign- 

 ing Fellowship; from Ferdinand Foch, and A. A. Macdonell, 

 accepting Foreign Honorary Membership, 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the receipt of letters 

 and other documents from the papers of Chief Justice Lemuel 

 Shaw, the gift of Mr, Shaw's granddaughter, Josephine MacC. 

 Shaw. 



A biographical notice of Charles Card Smith by Arthur Lord 

 was presented. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported the action of the Coun- 

 cil appointing Professor Louis Derr Chairman of the Committee 

 of Publication in place of Professor E. V. Huntington resigned. 



